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Link – Why sometimes it’s OK not to talk openly about mental illness
This is something I agree with But just because I talk publicly about my mental health, it doesn’t mean that you have to. In fact, I think it’s very important that you keep your illness within a circle of trust until you feel comfortable talking about it on the internet, or anywhere else, for that…
The Truth About Trafficking From A 20-year Veteran of the Child Exploitation Task Force
I think she’s right about that last point. I’ve written many times about the stories I hear, over and over again, where people don’t want to hear about child abuse and sexual abuse. It’s too sad and dirty. It isn’t very pleasant. People don’t want to know about how much sex trafficking goes on right around us every day and the hard work we could do to solve the problem. They’d rather believe conspiracy theories and look to their “heroes,” who are nothing but con artists, to fix it for them by going on rescue missions or attacking the “elites” who are supposedly controlling all sex trafficking around the world. That seems simpler than solving the problems that make kids vulnerable to trafficking: poverty, abuse, racism, a lack of support for kids transitioning out of foster care, or LGBTQ kids whom their own families do not accept.
Those are real problems that create vulnerable kids who go on to become real victims. Fixing them will require hard work and resources from all of us.
Sharing – Stanford prof who changed America with one study was also a liar
This is some interesting reading from Susannah Cahalan related to the closing of mental hospitals in the US. I already knew from my own reading that the closing, while supposedly meant to help patients who were being mistreated in some of those hospitals, created a much worse problem because they were released to be treated…
Seattle Times Launching Mental Health Project
I’m not in the Pacific Northwest any longer, but if you are, or if you’re interested in learning about the issues surrounding mental health in Washington State, which I assume are going to be similar to everywhere else in the US, they will be launching a two-year project to look at mental health.
Sharing – How being sad, depressed, and anxious online became trendy
There is a lot to consider in this article, and I hope that many of us in the “advocate” community will stop to consider it. What is the difference between trying to destigmatize mental health issues, and making them look glamorous? “There is no quick and dirty guide for how we can do sad online…
